Abuse of girls, viewed as ‘mere objects for defendants to use, abuse, humiliate then discard’, started when they were 12 and 13
Two brothers are among five men from Rochdale to have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two girls from the ages of 12 and 13.
The complainants are both now 33. Their abuse first came to light in 2015 when one of them, Girl A, took part in a parenting course in Rochdale and revealed she had been groomed from the age of 12. Jurors cleared Ikhlaq Yousef, 38, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, Aftar Khan, 34, of Sparth Bottoms Road, Rochdale, and Mohammed Iqbal, 67, of Gainsborough Drive, Rochdale, of any wrongdoing.
The trial is the first to emerge from Operation Lytton, a GMP inquiry set up to investigate child abuse, primarily focused around the testimony of Girl A and Girl B. They are expected to give evidence at a further four trials in 2024 and 2025, theThis is the second trial in which Girl A has been involved. The jury was told that in 2016to inciting her into sex work under a different GMP investigation. One, Gul Zaman, was sentenced to 10 years. Another, Mohammed Ishaque, received 11 years.
Since 2019, she has been locked in a battle with the CICA for damages relating to the abuse perpetrated by men involved in this latest trial, turning down an initial offer for £22,000 on the grounds that “this is the biggest grooming case in the UK”. She said Ghani introduced her to his older half-brother Jahn Shahid Ghani, who was then in his early 30s.
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